Kant, Kyrgyzstan
42.88805555555674.850277777778Koordinaten: 42 ° 53 'N, 74 ° 51 ' E
Kant is an industrial city in the Tschüi level in northern Kyrgyzstan, some 21 km east of the capital, Bishkek, near the border with Kazakhstan. The population with some eingemeindeten settlements, but without the Russian military personnel moves around 24,500.
Origin of the name
The name of Kant ( Kyrgyz sugar ) was created when a sugar factory was built in the 1930s. The sometimes heard claim that the city was named after the German philosopher Immanuel Kant is incorrect.
Economy
The city has lost since the collapse of the Soviet Union many jobs in industry and commerce. One of the most famous still thriving businesses is the Abdysh Ata brewery whose products enjoy great popularity in the country.
Air Force Base
In 1941 the Soviet Union moved an air base and pilot school from Odessa to Kant During the Second World War, more than 1,500 pilots were trained there. From 1956 foreign pilots were trained there: among them were the later president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, and of Syria, Hafiz al -Assad, and the Indian Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh. In 1992, after the end of the Soviet Union, the base was handed over to the Kyrgyz Republic. Since October 2003, the base will be used again by the Russian Air Force, on the since December 2001 stationed in Bishkek Americans maintains there as a response, the 999 air base of the 5th Air Army.
Population
The city was the residence of a large number of former Volga German who had been forcibly deported by Stalin after Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union from the Volga region to Central Asia, as the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was dissolved during the Soviet period. The vast majority of them have since left Kyrgyzstan to relocate to Germany. Some villages in the area, such as Luxembourg ( Люксембург ) peace panel ( Фриденфельд ) and mountain valley ( Бергталь ) ( officially since 1927 Red Front called ), still wearing their German names, but only small remnants of the descendants of their Volga German founders are there remained. The village Telman ( Thalmann ) is of German origin; It was founded in 1925 under the name of " green field ". A small museum in the village school of mountain valley / Red Front preserves the memory of the ancestors and their long and arduous journey to Central Asia.
Sports
In the city the football club Abdish -Ata Kant is located.